After the discovery of Mark Schwartz and Christina-Maria Petrowski-Schwartz, shot dead in their Brooklyn home's bedroom, investigators appear to be eying people who were close to the couple. The couple's usually aggressive German Shepherd did not make a peep during the killings and was tied up in the backyard. The Post reports that "$180,000 [was] missing from an escrow account," and that the couple had a "falling out [with] a one-time business partner of the......

A Marine Park husband and wife, who worked as divorce attorneys, were found dead, shot multiple times at close range in their bedroom. Their housekeeper found Mark Schwartz, 50, and Maria-Christina Petrowski-Schwartz, 48, yesterday afternoon on East 33rd Street. The Post reports that the police are investigating it as a double homicide, but "detectives had not entirely ruled out the possibility that it was a murder-suicide" (the murder weapon was not found). The Daily News......

A Rikers Island corrections officer is being investigated for possibly helping an accused cop killer try to escape from custody. The unidentified guard may have passed a handcuff key to Lee Woods, one of the men accused of gunning down Officer Russel Timoshenko a year ago during a traffic stop. The key was discovered in Woods' digestive tract when he was passed through a metal detector at the jail. Two other guards have been fired......

After serving tours in the Middle East, it was a Brooklyn backyard barbecue that proved deadly for Sergeant Kidson George. The 26-year-old man was gunned down on the porch of a Crown Heights home where he was celebrating the 4th of July with his girlfriend and others. George was shot twice in the chest by his girlfriend's former boyfriend, sending children screaming and dashing for cover. An unidentified 27-year-old woman was hit by a stray......

After serving 17 years in prison for his parents' 1988 murders until charges were dropped in January, Martin Tankleff learned today that he won't be retried for their murders. Tankleff's had lawyers claimed that the then-17-year-old Tankleff was tricked into confessing and pointed to evidence that suggested Tankleff's father's business associate could have been been behind the killings. Today, Attorney General Cuomo's office said, "The issue in this case is not whether there is evidence......

One teenager has been arrested and police are seeking a second suspect in the murder of a 25-year-old man shot to death following a minor traffic accident in the Bronx. Adolfo Gonzalez was shot twice in the chest early Saturday morning, after he got into a fender bender with two other vehicles. Two cars were reportedly simultaneously making u-turns around 5 a.m. Saturday morning near White Plains Road and Morris Park Ave. in the Bronx.......

Investigators looking for the cause in Sunday's fatal Queens fire now suspect that the ex-girlfriend of the most recent victim may have started the fire. It is believed Agnes Bermudez doused William Salazar with an accelerant, possibly carpet cleaner. Salazar died from his injuries yesterday. Video showed Salazar and Bermudez both on fire. Bermudez, a 48-year-old former stock trader, had recently broken up with Salazar and, according to family members, the split was an amicable......

After the October 2007 murder of her father and her mother's arrest for his killing this past February, the Daily News checks in on 5-year-old Michelle Malakov to see how she's doing. According to her paternal grandmother, the little girl calls her uncle "Daddy," "She can't be without him for a minute." Michelle witnessed the fatal shooting of her father, well-liked dentist Daniel Malakov, in a Queens playground. (Her parents had been embroiled in a......

The man who is suspected of killing an Upper East Side psychiatrist and injuring her colleague will be given his anti-psychotic and mood-stabilizing medication by court order. State Supreme Court Justice John E.H. Stackhouse granted Bellevue doctors permission to medicate David Tarloff, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Tarloff allegedly fatally slashed Dr. Kathryn Faughey with a meat cleaver, and also attacked Dr. Kent Shinbach, who tried to intervene. Shinbach, who survived, had hospitalized Tarloff 20......

The police charged a man, who found his girlfriend stabbed to death in a Chelsea apartment, with criminal mischief after he threw a chair out of a police station window. Robert Camarano, 60, was being questioned about Michele Hyams' death, and the Post reports that he is an "ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet." He also reportedly "started trying to change his story and requested a lawyer." Camarano had told police he came home late......

A 60-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her apartment last night. The Post reports the 60-year-old woman's boyfriend found her in the Eighth Avenue near 15th Street building around 11:15 p.m. The boyfriend, who tried to revive her and called 911, told police he arrived home late and made the grisly discovery--the victim had been stabbed multiple times. According to the Daily News, 10th Precinct police officers were on the scene and the......

A three-year-old boy was removed from a building in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn Friday afternoon. Despite efforts by EMS workers, the toddler was declared dead at Interfaith Hospital in Brooklyn. The cause of death has yet to be determined, but the young boy displayed evidence of being sexually assaulted and exhibited cigarette burns on his body. Police told neighbors that Kyle may have suffered a broken pelvis. The Daily News reports that the boy......

Police sources say that the woman found dead in her West 22nd Street apartment was killed by her boyfriend after she broke up with him. The Post reports that 26-year-old Margaux Powers (pictured, with her father) had "canceled plans to attend a family gathering Thursday" so she could break up with Jonathan Smith, 34. Powers and Smith, a chef who had been recently laid off, lived together in the Chelsea apartment. Police believe Smith slit......

A 26-year-old woman was found murdered in her Chelsea apartment by her sister last night, and the murder victim's boyfriend--and the murder suspect, according to police-- killed himself a few hours after the discovery. Margaux Powers's family had been worried they didn't hear from her for a few days, so her sister Dana went to Margaux's apartment at 235 West 22nd Street on Friday night. Doorman Constantine Ionescu accompanied Dana to the apartment, and......

Having "Bodyguard for Busta Rhymes" on one's resume may be more than a career killer. One of the rapper's former body guards was found dead in the back of a Lincoln Navigator in Queens Wednesday. 35-year-old Jermaine Williams of the Bronx had been shot multiple times--at least once in the head--and wrapped in a blanket before being placed in the SUV. Williams had not worked for Rhymes in eight years, since he was fired from......

The Eden Dry Cleaners, located at the corner of 10th Avenue and Windsor Place in Brooklyn, reopened yesterday. It had been eight days since its owner Kyung-Sook Woo was found dead in the store and six days since her suspected killer, 22-year-old Jamal Winter, was arrested. Her sons, Kenneth Oh and Daniel Oh, were on hand to greet customers throughout the day, giving them their dry cleaning and tailoring and listening to customers' appreciative......

A 15-year-old Upper East Side resident was fatally shot after leaving a Sweet 16 party at the 133 West 90th Street in Manhattan. Maurice McIver had been shot in the groin around 1 a.m. yesterday, outside the Wise Towers housing project; a few hours later at the hospital, he "was pronounced dead from blood loss because the bullet had severed an artery in his leg." The police think McIver had gotten into a fight with......

Cops made quick work of the case of the murder of a livery cab driver, who was allegedly killed by two teens who have now been arrested. Early yesterday morning, police were searching for suspects after a fight broke out inside a livery cab that left its driver dead with multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen. After being stabbed, Geraldo Guttierez tried to make it to a hospital, but was too badly injured.Mortally......

Police arrested a man with a criminal history in the Wednesday night robbery-murder of a Staten Island liquor store owner. Though 67-year-old Elgudzha Koyenishvili tried to defend himself with a baseball bat, John Lanorth had a gun and shot him at least twice before taking the cash reigster and fleeing the scene. Witnesses had described the suspect as a white man, 5'7", wearing jeans and a blue hooded sweatshirt, and one took down the killer's......

A yard in Jamaica, Queens was excavated by police after a convicted murderer said he dumped another body there. Gregory Wynder, who is serving a life sentence for the 2001 murder of a Harlem woman, has claimed he killed two other women--claims that Queens detectives believe are true--in a South Jamaica home where a girlfriend lived. A "handcuffed and shackled" Wynder showed detectives where on the 170th Street (near 105th Avenue) lot he supposedly buried......

Police explained how they arrested 22-year-old Jamal Winter in the murder of a Windsor Terrace dry cleaner. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters:"Investigators found his fingerprint in the store. They went to question him, he wasn't home. They observed the car, the woman's car, the victim's car, parked in the neighborhood. He had changed the plate. So they waited for him and when he approached the car, they spoke to him, talked to him. He......

The police arrested a 22-year-old man and charged him with killing a beloved Windsor Terrace dry cleaner. As he was escorted from a police precinct last night, the Daily News reports that suspect Jamal Winter of Park Slope said, "I didn't do nothing." The body of 63-year-old Kyung-Sook Woo was found in her store by a neighbor on Friday morning. Some reports say she was strangled, while the Post says she was "hit on the......

One of the lead detectives in the murder of Imette St. Guillen was ticketed and suspended for using a photocopied parking placard in Brooklyn last week. The ticket was issued in front of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, where Det. Sean McTighe parked in front of a fire hydrant. According to Daily News sources, the detective, a member of the Brooklyn North Homicide Squad, was on duty when he parked his personal car in front of......

A 15-year-old girl who was shot in the head yesterday died from her injuries. No arrests have been made in the shooting, but Brandon Bethea was shot shortly before midnight on Redfern Ave. in Queens. She was taken to St. Johns Hospital, but did not survive. Bethea had returned to her old neighborhood in Far Rockaway in order to find a dress for her junior prom, when she was shot. The girl seems to have......

The dead body of a dry cleaning business owner was found in her store yesterday morning. Police say Kyung-Sook Woo, 63, who owned the Eden Dry Cleaners at 10th Avenue and Windsor Place in Windsor Terrace, was found face down in the store's bathroom. She had blood behind her ear. The medical examiner is conducting an autopsy, but police suspect foul play and were at the store late last night, still looking for evidence.......

William Davila surrendered to the police this afternoon, three days after his estranged wife was found stabbed to death in the front of his car on the Lower East Side. The body of Leonida Davila, 39, was found shortly before midnight Tuesday evening in parking garage on Delancey and Essex Streets. She was wrapped in a blanket and handcuffed, with multiple stab wounds to the head, neck, and chest. Davila, who was convicted of attempted......

Last night, a woman was found dead in a SUV which was parked on the second floor of an Essex Street parking garage. The woman, identified as 39-year-old Leonida Davila, was slashed in the throat. Her body was wrapped in a blanket, in the front passenger seat. The Daily News says the car, a Chevy Suburban, is registered to Davila's estranged husband William Davila, who lives on Rutgers Street. The couple reportedly has a history......

A 27-year-old woman was dead found with her throat slashed yesterday morning. And police say that she was killed while putting her 1-year-old son into his car seat yesterday morning. According to the police, Aisha Bristol was at her car at Hart Street and Lewis Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant when she was attacked. A witness said, "I was awoken by someone screaming, 'Please, somebody help me! Somebody help me!' Then I heard the baby." Police found......

Two incidents of people trying to stop others from harassing or beating people have had some violent consequences. Yesterday, at West 4th and Jones Street, a 23-year-old Andrew Mindnich saw a woman being bothered by two men around 12:30 a.m. When he intervened by saying, "What's going on?" the Post reports the two men punched, kicked, and stomped Mindnich in the head and chest. Mindnich was treated for his injuries, while the police managed to......

Barbara Sheehan, the woman who fatally shot her NYPD sergeant husband in February, has given an interview to the Daily News, explaining her actions. Retired cop Raymond Sheehan had been shaving in their Howard Beach home when his wife allegedly shot him in the back with 11 rounds, using one of his guns. Her lawyer said Raymond Sheehan was the real "aggressor," and friends and family members said that she had been repeatedly abused (one......